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ActionSA has warned the DA that is could soon lose power in Ekurhuleni as the EFF and ANC have an agreement in place to unseat Mayor Tania Campbell.

The party said it had already warned its members in that council to prepare for a takeover by a new African National Congress-Economic Freedom Fighters coalition.

ActionSA said the coalition arrangement in Johannesburg no longer exists.

This follows events in the city council, which led to the election of Colleen Makhubele as speaker and the ousting of Mpho Phalatse as mayor.

He was elected by council on Friday after the ANC and other opposition parties pushed through a motion to remove the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) Mpho Phalatse.

“And this is a conversation is becoming very clear is necessary for Action SA to have because we are, without any doubt, involved in the coalition arrangement between these three metros led by a political party that actually does not understand the principles of co-governance.”

At least five City of Tshwane senior officials should face criminal charges for their part in allowing irregular tender procedures that cost the Tshwane ratepayers nearly R292m after a forensic report looking into a Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant found they had flouted procurement rules.

Phalatse turned to the courts on an urgent basis to try get the sitting interdicted.

One of ActionSA's strengths can also be its greatest weakness: the party seems obsessed with the ANC. It is as though if the ANC were to disappear from the face of the earth, ActionSA would struggle for meaning.

Athol Trollip discusses his belief that coalitions are South Africa’s future and how voters have the power to bring about change.